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Fedora Security Advisory: FLSA-1222 Moderate Tcpdump DoS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 3, 2004
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The latest modifications to tcpdump rectify significant security flaws that might allow attackers to run unapproved programs or instigate a service outage within Fedora platforms.
If the victim uses tcpdump, attack could result in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code as the 'pcap' user.

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security advisory Fedora tcpdump remote code execution arbitrary code execution security fix Denial of Service

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CVE -CVE-2003-0989 CVE -CVE-2004-0055 CVE -CVE-2004-0057 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tcpdump-workers&m=107325073018070&w=2



9. Contact:

The Fedora Legacy security contact is <secnotice@fedoralegacy.org>. More project details at http://www.fedoralegacy.org

- -- Jesse Keating RHCE ( ) Fedora Legacy Team (http://www.fedoralegacy.org)



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